10-30-24 Afternoon Rush - Armie Hammer Back In Hollywood? & Golden Bachelorette & Love Is Blind Reunion Preview!Travis Kelce Discusses Protecting Privary With Taylor Swift (New Heights clip)

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Welcome to the Rush Hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your Rush Hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Hello everybody, good afternoon. It's cabbage day. That's October 30th, 2024 the day before Halloween. That's what we celebrated in new England. At least, uh, I don't recommend celebrating that just a bunch of nine year olds spraying, uh, you know, aftershave on people's cars, debauchery, hide your toilet paper.

Uh, does anyone do that anymore? Throw toilet paper on people's trees. I feel like ring cams probably got rid of that fun treat we used to do. Uh, and for good reason. All right. Well, on today's episode, we've got Olivia Rodrigo explaining to Jimmy Fallon the moment she fell through the stage plus Travis Kelsey gives an update on his relationship with Taylor Swift, all good things, and former California governor and Mr.

Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his presidential endorsement. And I'll explain the messy feud between Channing Tatum and his ex's new man. Uh, speaking of messy, Armie Hammer also has a new movie role in a western. And we've got some salacious news. swinging happening on the dance floor among some Dancing with the Stars professionals plus updates on the Vanderpump Rules renewal status and Love is Blind reunion is tonight.

What to expect? All these stories and more coming up next on The Rush. Well, I promised this earlier and we ran out of time. So let's get right to it. Vanderpump rules star Lala Kent explains the rumor that she and Arianna Maddox are holding off on the next production of the next season of Vanderpump rules.

There's something out there, I guess, where it's being said that Arianna and I, the reason production's being held up on Vanderpump rules is because Arianna and I are. Uh, wanting a lot of money. And although that is a rumor, I like it. Give me more money. There's literally been not one conversation, but let's go with that.

That sounds pretty gangster. I like it. And Hey, who knows? Maybe Ariana, look, her star exploded, right? She's hosting love is blind USA or none. What a, what a miss. What's a love Island USA. One of those shows she's doing just fine. So who knows what's going on over there? Uh, but either way, the season I'm, I'm sure we'll return, but you know, even good things.

Sometimes you need to. Just, you know, take some time off and recover from all the crazy drama. Uh, you know, I love the show below deck about people who work on super yachts. And here is, uh, a podcast called crew mess podcast talking about helicopter beer delivery. On a super yacht. There is no request that can't be granted.

Yeah. Like I feel like. People will just make anything happen and that's one thing. It's so fun. I even heard of this guy. He was saying how They were somewhere super remote, but they were it was a really big boat and they had a helicopter the guests wanted It's this very, very specific type of beer and they got a helicopter to bring it to them.

Do you know how much money that costs to use your helicopter to deliver beer? Yeah. I don't usually use my helicopter to deliver beer, but when I do it's Corona with a small wedge of lime. Uh, I put a lime in all my beers. I'm a big, uh, light lager guy. I like a lager and I like lime. I like that. The, the, the quenching thirst of some citrus.

Don't sue me for it. Now, I don't even know like what I would do if I had that kind of money, right? If you're, if you're that rich, you have to start thinking of how to spend it. And I think if you're going to be spending your money, basically postmating some beer with a helicopter, um. I think that that's just like a power move.

Like you don't even want the beer. It's just a power. It's like, you know what? Fly to Italy and get me a good pizza and come back. It's like that type of deal. Uh, well look, here is one way to make money. Uh, only fans, only fans as a business is just swimming in cash. But I mean, it's just impressive. 391 million users, 5.

3 million. Creators 23 billion valuation operating profits last year, 649 million this year, 775 million only fan users have spent 6. 6 billion in 2023 and on track to spend 7. 9 billion in 24. It's just a monster. So as crazy as that is, you know, what's funny to me is a lot of people that make their money on only fans do it by interacting with their audience.

And it's like, if you're making at least a couple hundred thousand dollars and only fans. You probably hire somebody to like flirt with your audience for you. Now I don't do that. I flirt directly with my audience. You know me, I'm I'm one that you guys have me, but you know what, you know what I just found out on Instagram, you might not have access to this.

This, this is like a new beta program. They're rolling out. I don't mean to sound like an elite here, getting my beer delivered by helicopter in Instagram status, but there's a new AI training tool on my Instagram that I found yesterday. That's. Letting me teach it what to tell my audience. So I'm basically plugging in all of my podcast links and Patreon.

So that way, if someone ever asks, Hey, how do I listen to your podcast? The AI version of Dave will respond. Isn't that crazy? I at least hope that it tells the person it's the AI version of me. I don't want to dupe anybody, but you know, At the level we're at right now, it's, you know, we're kind of in that mid tier level where we're not, uh, we're not like, you know, international, everybody knows the rush hour, but you know, we get a lot of DMS.

I say, we, I'm talking about me and my brain's absolutely fried from all the DMs you can probably hear in the background. I got a six month old son crying. I'm trying to do all the different things here. So. I wouldn't hate having a little AI help me out. Now, do I think AI should be used to replace our artistic endeavors?

No, but if it can lighten the load a little bit on the day, it's like, it's like, uh, doing your, uh, sort of social media laundry for you. I don't know. I wouldn't be opposed to it. Well, speaking of Cashing in from helicopters. This whole, this whole beginning of the episode feels like, uh, just a big, uh, dopamine rush of, uh, hitting the lottery, but I got a couple more stories for you who better to strike it rich than Forrest Gump.

I mean, he's a story of poverty, although he was kind of wealthy. He had that nice house with his mom there, but, uh, either way from that to being like absurdly rich, he's the story kind of like Tom Hanks. Now, Tom Hanks, of course played Forrest Gump, but he kind of is Forrest Gump in a way. Is there any line from the film that You hope to live your life never hearing quoted back to you again.

No, it's all great. You don't mind life is a box of chocolates. Oh, you run for us, Ron. It's all no, no, no, no. Shrimp sandwich. All of that. No, all of that stuff is great. Peas and carrots. People yell a bunch of stuff at me, you know. What's the most common? Uh, uh, I get Wilson a lot. Wilson! Brace for impact, I get that.

Brace for impact. I'm the captain now? I get, I'm the captain now, which wasn't my line. No, but. You know, that Barkha Dabney's line. Houston, we have a problem. Houston, we have a problem. For you, you've been in every iconic classic film. There, everyone's shouting those quotes at you. Ride like the wind, bullseye, I get that.

So literally, literally, Tom Hanks can't play anybody but a protagonist. I mean, he's just such a likable guy. I remember when I was filming the movie Birdman, I was standing in on it and had a very, very small role in the movie, but it filmed at the St. James Theatre. theater, which I believe was on 44th street and 7th Avenue, maybe 42nd street.

But either way, it was in smack dab, the center of times square. And at the time, Tom Hanks was making an appearance on the Broadway version of, I don't, I don't even, I don't even know what the play was. Uh, but either way he would come out in every day. You'd have to hold cameras because you would hear all of this cheering happening.

And it was audiences that got a chance to see Tom Hanks. He's absolutely loved. cherished. He's probably one of the most beloved person out there. And of course his character didn't just strike it rich. He also struck it rich, uh, by kind of just being really good at what he does. And speaking of striking it rich, here's a story of a man who found 43, 000 in a couch he bought used.

The only thing I ever find when I buy a couch is bedbugs. Have a listen. Last month he purchased a couch for his man cave, and this weekend he made a shocking discovery. It was filled with thousands of dollars in cash. I still have to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming or something. Kirby says that he had this ottoman for a few weeks.

before noticing that it was uncomfortable. And that's when his daughter decided to open it up and then she started pulling out this. Oh my goodness. A total of 43, 170 was found in the ottoman cushion. But Kirby says he didn't feel right keeping the money. So he reached out to the restore to find out who had donated the couch.

Turns out was Kim Fouth Newberry. The couch originally belonged to her grandfather. And he died last year. It's just crazy. Today, the restore held a big surprise for falcon Newberry to give back every dollar found in the cushion. Why he's got money in cushions. I don't know. Kirby says an attorney told him that he had no legal obligation to give the money back, but he felt like he had to morally.

And that's something that Rick Merling, the store manager, thinks is heartwarming. All right, so a man finds 43k in his couch and gives it back to the first owner. What, uh, like, uh, like not to, not to be here and kind of, uh, taking a shit on old, the older generation, but what an older generation thing to do to just store money in a couch.

You know, you can get it in an Amex, uh, high yield store. Savings account at 4. 2 percent interest. You could be, I mean, you know what you make on 43, 000 cash. You'd probably make 300 bucks a month. Just letting it sit in a, uh, in a high yield account, let alone putting it into the stock market. All right. But that's just me here.

Either way. Good to see good deeds done. Uh, and by the way, the couch cushion itself looks disgusting. You know, if I was the person who donated the couch, I would give some of that money back to the person who did the good deed. How about that? How about you guys split it down the middle? You know, it's found money.

Why not? All right. We've got a lot of content to get to, so stick around. We'll be back with more right after this. All right. I tease this dancing with the stars drama. I said there was swinging happening on the dance floor, but I don't mean like sexual swinging and more. So just like, uh, a lot of, uh, it's kind of like bands.

You guys remember band in high school, everyone kind of dated everybody. Well, I guess that's how it is with the former. We're the professional dancers because dancing with the stars pro Alan Burstyn and Emma Slater are hooking up says a source. Now some say this has been going on for a while, but I guess they were spotted in a photo recently.

So it's kind of been talked about. Now Emma Slater was married to Sasha. Um, Sasha was Jen trans partner until last night when they were sent home, Sasha Farber. So either way, uh, yeah, it's going to be kind of tough. They're kind of cramped into that little, that little room where they all hang out and it's kind of, can you imagine dancing with your ex and then seeing your ex dancing with your coworker?

I don't know. I know they say don't shit where you eat, but also don't do the Paso Doble where you bang. I know that's just a thought that I had. All right. Army hammer. We've. shared him a few times. He was essentially canceled from Hollywood, and then he was selling real estate in some, you know, Virgin Island somewhere.

Well, now he's riding back into Hollywood and he booked a role in a Western following cannibal claims. Uh, he's, like I said, got this podcast. Obviously he's got a good PR team because he's, he's kind of being shown everywhere. He posted several photos on Instagram earlier this morning, featuring him with a cowboy hat on wistfully looking to the horizon with a script on his lap.

Here's the deal with Armie Hammer. If everything that he did in his past relationship was consensual, if, yeah, and by the way, I don't know. So I'm not vetting this guy. I have no idea, but they ended up never pressing charges on him. If all of that's true. And he, he and his partner just enjoyed some weird stuff, then go, go work, do whatever you want to do.

Uh, but back in 2021, a woman named Effie Angelova Accused Hammer of the R word and said he had cannibalistic fantasies while Hammer's ex Paige Lorenz claims he branded her with an A before licking the blood off of her. Yeah, that's what was kind of weird is, I mean, more than kind of weird. There was a documentary where he had his ex get a tattoo and she didn't at the time realize that it was actually his initials.

So he admitted to discussing cannibalism as a form of role play, but denied being an actual cannibal. Listen, if you're going to be doing role playing out there, you need to insert a disclaimer before every. Like I want to eat your arm off, allegedly for role playing purposes, not in real life. You know what I mean?

And maybe, uh, you know, maybe that's, uh, you know, when this story came out, it's like, look, I didn't believe the cannibalism things because come on, who's like, you know, how many, how many Hollywood people are cannibals, but for whatever reason, people want to believe these crazy stories. Like, you know, Hillary Clinton sucks the blood from the youth.

to, you know, to, you know, so she'll look younger and I'm like, Hillary Clinton doesn't look that young. If you were Jennifer Lopez and you told me that I'd be like, well, you're onto something here. But again, JLo's got that, you know, beautiful Puerto Rican skin. So, uh, you know, clearly that's her solution anyway, just a lot of messiness here.

And you know what? Look, when you break up, there is a lot of messiness and I'm not saying he didn't commit these. Crimes, I'm just saying he was never charged with anything, right? Well, Jenna's, Jenna Dewan's fiance posts something after Channing Tatum announced his split. So Channing Tatum has been engaged to Zoe Kravitz, I guess for a while, they've been dating for three years.

He just finally fin Like finalized his divorce from Jenna. Well, Jenna's fiance, Steve Kazee is having one hell of a chuckle, dropping a very telling message right after he called it quits. And he posted on Instagram, ha ha ha ha ha, like a thousand times. Listen, let me tell you something. This is so petty as hell.

And look, I don't know more to the story, but I'm just like over passive aggressiveness. If you have a problem with Channing Tatum, Own it and say what your problem is. Don't post some vague thing. That's such a, that's so annoying when people just post like some vague thing. Tell me what your issue is. We want to hear the tea.

All right. Uh, speaking of tea, we want to hear from Travis and Taylor, the double T's. Uh, well here they had a guest on Nisi Nash Betts. Uh, and she discussed, uh, sort of how polite the friend group is around the celebrity known as Taylor and Travis. Tell you about, about people who text me about Travis, it all started off saying, you know, we're watching the thing.

Is he the killer? Yeah. Just to get you, just to get you on the line, texting them. And then they like, well, what do you know about his relationship? You know how it goes. I'm like, I'm like, man, get off that man business. I'm a vault. I don't say nothing. You're a real one. You ain't get nothing out of me.

You're a real one. I mean, y'all just being nosy. Don't ask me nothing. If I was, like, a real celebrity, I would feed fake stories to different people to see which gets leaked. That's what I would do. I would be like, all right, my wife, Tasha has gout. And then I would only tell that to one person. And then if it's like a news report, Tasha has gout.

I'd be like, it was you, Rebecca, you'd said it. You know, I give just like, you know, and I'd have to like, keep track of which, you know, whatever. Anyway, it's gotta be, it's gonna be exhausting. I'm trying to keep, uh, the social circle tight, but if you're in that inner circle, you probably really respect them as well.

You see this a lot when there's like celebrities that they, that will often go to the same gym or the same restaurant. You'll see, you'll see it very often that people want to sort of defend them and help them with their privacy because you don't want to blow it, right? You don't want to be the friend that, uh, you know, that blows the fact that they're trying to just have private moments.

Oh, man. Oh, my goodness. That's great. I appreciate you always. And every time someone, uh, that has a mic in front of you always, uh, ask you something like that. Thank you for always showing love. You know, it's real. And you know that me and Tay are absolutely happy and I appreciate you always making sure that everybody knows that.

So thank you. You know, it's gotta be interesting because, uh, I fully believe Travis Kelsey is probably the type to just wear his heart on his sleeve and tell you what he's thinking because he's just kind of like a small town guy and he's got a good sense of humor. But I guess what he's realized with this Taylor Swift thing is if anything is said, you know, about their relationship, it's always going to come back to haunt them in one way or another.

So the best thing is to try to keep quiet and try to just protect that as best as you can. Well, I tell you what, if the, if the Travis and Taylor relationship needs anything, maybe they could use some help in the bedroom. And I've got. Not just the solution for them. I've got VEA. It's a company dedicated to harnessing the natural benefits of hemp to create high quality wellness products.

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Well, the Dodgers star Freddie Freeman was heckled last night during the cancer tribute. They do this nice moment of silence where everyone kind of shares who they're, you know, who they're rooting for with their cancer journey. It's a real special moment. But in that moment, a Yankees fan shouted, you suck.

Now, I wouldn't normally share a story like this, but it's very interesting because you have an audience full of 50, 000 people, all behaving, all respecting this moment. And then some drunk buffoon yells, you suck a, this shouldn't be a news story, but it is. But B, it's kind of like the internet, right?

Freddie Freeman is. He's kind of like the star of the World Series. He's hits, uh, home runs in six straight games dating back to the previous World Series. I mean, he's absolutely a legend right now, and yet somebody in the stand can just tell him he sucks and he has to ignore it and take it because if he lashes back, it'll look bad on him.

That's peak internet. And I'm sure, you know, the socio economic structure of a baseball game, clearly someone in the stand is not someone on the playing field. But on the internet. People in the stands, AKA a troll commenter can treat a content creator or an influencer or someone on Instagram with the same level of vitriol.

And what we have to remember everyone involved is that if someone heckles you and yells, you suck, it really says a whole lot more about them than it does about you. Clearly Freddie Freeman doesn't suck. And for those people out there that troll influencers or whatever, yeah, no, they're just not happy with their lot in life.

That's just what it is. And it's like, that's fine. We just need to remember not to take things so personally on the internet because those people shouldn't have the megaphone to even talk to you that way. All right. I got a lot of stories left to cover Olivia Rodrigo. I've got, um, I've got a, I've got a, uh, the preview for a bachelorette, uh, tonight and then love is blind reunion.

So lots to get into. We'll be back with all that right after this. We shared last week that Olivia Rodrigo was seen falling through the stage and, uh, she calls it beautiful that she had no broken bones. Here's what she had to say on Jimmy Fallon. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love all that jam. Uh, there was a moment I saw in Australia.

I don't know if you remember that you went to Australia. Ha ha, yep. Uh, yeah, you fell through a hole in the stage. Oh, God, I know. I'm sorry, I had to bring it up. I know, but I'm bringing it up only because you, you handled it like a pro. Thanks, Jimmy. And you're fine. I actually have a video. So here's the I'm sorry, I have to do it.

Here's Olivia Rodrigo in Australia. Take a look at this. Sometimes there's just a hole in the stage.

Sometimes there's just a hole in the stage. That feels like a Woody line from a Toy Story. There's a snake in my boot. Somebody poison the water hole. Sometimes there's just a hole in the stage. That's alright. What was that? Not bad. No, no, you did a great job. Dude, that could have been It was really scary, yeah.

What did it feel like? Watching the video back is pretty terrifying. I'm, I mean, show must go on, that's showbiz, baby, but um, Yeah, look at you. It was actually kind of a beautiful thing, and I'm really happy it happened in hindsight. Um, so I'd just been to the Philippines, that was my next stop, Australia, after the Philippines.

And I was thinking about my family, and my heritage, and my relatives, Of course. I fell and I was like all shaken up and I went to the hospital after I had nothing happen But they just wanted to make sure I didn't have a concussion and I'm randomly the nurse was a Filipino man with the same name As my grandpa who just passed away a few months ago And so I was like, wow, that was that was him looking out for me making sure I didn't get hurt And so I'm really happy it happened.

I think that was your grandfather. Absolutely That's a sweet moment. So hey, we let you know what that's a positive person making a good decision Sort of a thing out of a tough situation. Well, here's Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsing Kamala Harris. He says, get to the polls. He says, I don't really do endorsements.

I'm not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don't trust most politicians, which by the way, it's such a funny thing to say, having been governor. He said, I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity. I'm a fan. I'm a former Republican governor. My time as governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics.

I'm proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That's policy.

It requires working with the other side, not insulting them, to win your next election. And I know it isn't sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make better decisions. People's lives better with policies like I still do through my institution at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rigged the system against the people.

Uh, Arnold was governor before I really got into politics. I think I was still pretty young or whatever. Just don't remember it. But either way, I kind of remember him getting a lot of criticism as governor, but what a world we live in where a celebrity could just get. Alright, well let's move it over to the Bachelorette.

Tonight's Golden Bachelorette, and it's Fantasy Suites. Here's your preview. This week is Fantasy Suites. I'm hopeful I'm going to find somebody that I'm going to spend the rest of my life with, and this ends with an engagement. I'm falling for you. My heart, it just has to let love in. Can I see myself getting engaged?

I just don't know. So, he says he doesn't know. I feel like that's clickbait. I think Chuck's very much ready to get engaged, but we're excited to see how Fantasy Suites go. It's also the reunion of Love is Blind tonight. I'll be watching that, so make sure you stick around tomorrow morning and we'll have to see what goes down because there's obviously a lot of crazy tea happening in the Love is Blind world.

Well, as promised, I wanted to end on Aubrey Plaza. Here she is giving a speech out of character. She kind of plays a very deadpanned character. Like that's kind of her act. Well, here she is criticizing comedian Tony Hinchcliffe. It's been a rough week for Tony Hinchcliffe. Here's what she has to say. As a Puerto Rican woman.

Um, I just wanted to very quickly respond to the racist joke that was made at that Trump rally about Puerto Rico, where most of my family is from. Thankfully, my sweet abuelita wasn't here to hear that disgusting remark, but if she was alive today, I think she would say Tony Hinchcliffe. Go yourself and yes, the Wall Street Journal and quote me on that.

Alright. Right. Well there, hey, we, we also like to tell people to go f themselves. We normally save it for a Friday, but Aubrey, maybe, Hey, my a Audrey, uh, Aubrey Plaza, maybe she, uh, maybe she's a rush hour listener, and she's like, yeah, my OTA is gonna tell people to go f themselves. Two, either way, uh, make a note out there.

Don't make fun of Puerto Ricans. No, look, I mean, look, you can make fun of Puerto Rican. You can make fun of anybody. Just, you know, find a way to write a smarter joke and also don't do it at a presidential rally. There's my advice for you. All right, folks, we'll be back in the morning. So much to cover. So share me with your friend groups.

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